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Photos | Gig Harbor Garden Tour showcases flood of floral elegance

If they looked closely, this year’s Gig Harbor Garden Tour-goers could spot nectar-drunk bees bumbling lazily amongst purple-flowered sage and the deep, honey gold flowers of lance-leaved coreopsis, as they strolled through one garden on the tour that this year kicked off on June 28.

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The 2025 Gig Harbor Garden Tour. Photo by Carolyn Bick © Carolyn Bick

In another garden, garden tour attendees could follow a path through a sea of roses, trailing off into the river of leaves of a wedding cake dogwood. They could pause to spend time in the different floral “rooms” of a Fox Island garden, which held everything from medicinal and bright feverfew — an unexpected arrival to that particular garden — to the aptly named bigleaf magnolia, who sported sumptuously huge, sprawling white petals.

The 2025 Gig Harbor Garden Tour. Photo by Carolyn Bick © Carolyn Bick

Beginning in 1998, the tour, run by a nonprofit of the same name, once again raised funds for literacy grants. Last year, the tour raised more than $25,000 to promote literacy in the community. The tour will continue through June 29, with gardens opening their gates at 11 a.m.

Click on any image below to see a gallery of photos from the tour.